Attachment for addressing machines



1,530,107 E. COLEMAN 3 Sheets-Sheet 1 March 17, 1925.

ATTACHMENT FOR ADDRESSING MACHINES Filed'sept, 50. 1921 WWW w March 17, 1925.

Filed Sept 3O 1921 3 Sheets-Sheet 2 Emu m mImmSm 4mm4 INVENTOR EDWARD COLEMAN BY I 6 WITNESSES ATTORNEYS 3 Sheets-Sheet 3 E. COLEMAN March 17, 1925.

ATTACHMENT FOR ADDRESSING MACHINES Filed Sept. 30 21 JIC' 5% 3 WITNESSES ing ribbon, in which position it is retained by any suitable means, and the platen is brought to bear against the rear face of the card so that the same receives the imprint of the plate 13. It is to be understood, however, that although the type of machine aforedescribed, is that of a conventional addressing machine, it Will readily be understood that the same is taken merely for the sake of illustration, and in view of the fact that my attachment is primarily intended for use with this type of machine. It is to be appreciated, however, that the same is equally adaptable for use in modified or improved forms of this machine, and that the same is not necessarily limited for use with this type of machine, but may be advantageously used with any type of addressing machine wherein 'the transfer of data from a printing or transferring means, other than a type plate, onto an article to be imprinted is possible.

Referring more particularly to the details of construction of this attachment, it will be seen, attention being invited to Figures 1 and 3, that the same primarily includes a plate or supporting member 16 formed with an off-set end portion 17 adapted to cooperate with clamping nuts 18, to anchor the attachment to the outer edge of the bed 10 of the addressing machine. A secondary plate or slide 19 is associated with the plate '16 in a. manner hereinafter specified. An article retaining device is mountedupon the plate or slide 19, it being noted that the body of the latter primarily includes a strip or article locating and holding member 20 whichis, rendered susceptible, with respect to the plate 19, to adjustment by means of a slot and pin connection 21, a fixing of these elements with respect to each other being secured by any suitable clamping elements 22 co-operating with the pins in this connection.

Hingedly secured to the strip 20 is a secondary strip 23, a spring 24 co-operating with both of these members is provided so that the strip 23 is normally forced .to lie in a. plane forming a. continuation of the strip 20, as has been clearly indicated in Figure 4. The strip 23 is provided with a turned up portion 23 at one end thereof to form a locating stop for the side edge of the card 26 to be imprinted. Also the clips 25 of any desirable character, are associated with the secondary strips 23, and thus a. card 26 of the customary type may be disposed between these members, and retained thereby. A locating stop 27 is provided, which is secured to the strip 23 to engage the lower edge of the card 26, to position the same so that the imprint on each of a plurality of cards will be in the same location on each with respect to the edge thereof. The secondary strip 23, in some instances may be dispensed with, where the advantage of the hinged connection is not required, and the clips 25 and the stop members 27 and 23* will then be fixed to an integral extension of the strip 20.

Finally it will be noted that a plate or shield 28 is affixed to the attachment, which plate is cut away to form an outwardly extending portion 29. With respect tothe connection aforementioned existing between the plates 19 and 16, the former plate is preferably formed with longitudinally extending slots 30, formed with off-set end portions 31, while the latter plate mounts headed pins 32, which extend through these slots and permit of a limited sliding movement of one plate with respect to the second of the same. It. is thus seen that the slide or plate 19, when moved to the right and guided by the pin and slot arrangement shown, will have an outward substantially transverse movement as well as a longitudinal movement relative to the supporting member '16. The substantially simultaneous movements of the slide 19 obviously could be obtained by Various arrangements of slot and pin construction, wherein one end of the slot is longitudinally below or above the other end. It is to be noted that the ends of the slot 30in co-operation with the pins 32 form means whereby the movement of the slide 19 relative to the supporting plate 16 is limited in both directions.

In operation, assuming that the card 26 is to be alphabetically printed, as in Figures 1, 2, 3 and 4, it will primarily be seen that the parts of the addressing machine are manipulated in the customary manner and that the card is placed in the positionv indicated in the figures aforementioned, care being taken to properly engage the card with the locating stops 23 and The plate 19 is now moved to the position shown in Figure 1, i. e. in which the pins 32 extend into the ends of the off-set portions 31 of the slots 30. A manipulation of the platen 15 in this instance will cause the card 26 to bear against the blocking plate 28, and the outward portion 29 thereof, it being noted however, that in this instance the uppermost line of characters of the plate 15 will extend beyond the outwardly extending portion 29 of the block ing plate or shield 28, and in line with the upper edge of the card 26, thus permitting of the characters appearing upon this portiop of the plate being imprinted upon the card and adj acent the upper edge of the same.

The plate 19 is now slid to the position indicated in Figure 2, in other words, outwardly and to one side, thus effecting a retraction of the entire attachment, and the card carried thereby, so that the second line of characters appearing upon the plate 13 will be in a line parallel to the first line of characters already imprinted thereon, and to one side of thesame. A second operation of the platen 15wil1 obviously eliect in this instance, the imprinting of the remainder of the characters, as has been indicated in Figure 2, it being noted that two lines of these characters may now be imprinted by the secondary operation, in View of the fact that the outwardly extending, portion 29 of the blocking plate has been moved to one side.

If it is now desired to print the cards geographically, although utilizing exactly the same plate, and without altering the construction of the addressing machine, this may be accomplished by manipulating the parts to assume the position indicated in Figure 5. This is accomplished by primarily detaching the plate 19 from the plate 16, and in reversing one of these plates with respect to the second of the same, so that the oft-set portion 31 of the slots 30 extend to- Ward the left-hand side. The blocking plate or shield 28 is also reversed, but it will be obvious that thestrip 20 and parts carried thereby are arranged in the same manner upon the opposite face of the plate 19.

As has been clearly shown, incident to this arrangement of the parts, the first line of characters upon the plate 13 will lie beyond the card 26 so'that when the platen 15 is operated, these characters will not imprint upon the card, but rather in this instance, the street and town address in the embodiment illustrated, will be imprinted upon the card.

Further, upon the plate 19 being slid side-wise, and inwardly with respect to theplate 16, the street and town address appearing upon the plate 13 will be blocked by the outwardly extending portion 29 of the blocking plate 28, and only the upper line of characters (in this instance the name) will extend above the outwardly projecting portion aforementioned, and be aligned with the upper edge of the card.

Thus it will be understood that all of the objects setforth in the preamble of this specification have been accomplished, and it will be appreciated that the aforementioned construction might be continued, to for instance permit of any number of lines of characters appearing upon the plate being distributed upon a card, or other imprint receiving surface, in such a manner that all of these characters will appear aligned with each other, or distributed upon the said imprint receiving member in any desirable manner.

I claim:

1. In combination with data transferring device, an article holder including article engaging means, said means lying adjacent said device and adapted to position the article in imprint receiving position by engagement with the lower edge of said article, said article holder being shiftablewith respect to said device "whereby the imprint obtained 3. An attachment, including in combine tion with data transferring means, means comprising a support and means for retain .ing an article to be imprinted, said retaining means lying adjacent )said transferring means and being capable of having its parts simultaneously shifted transversely to move said article transversely to various positions.

4. An attachment, including in combination with a data transferring device, means comprising a plurality of parts for retaining an article to be imprinted, said means lying adjacent said device and being capable of having its parts simultaneously shifted longitudinally to move/said article longitudinally to various positions.

5. Ari-attachment, including in combination with data transferring means, means comprising a plurality of parts for engage ing an article to be imprinted, said means lying adjacent said transferring means and being capable of having its parts simultaneously shifted longitudinally and transversely to move said article both longitudinally and transversely to various positions.

6. An attachment including a pair of plates, means associated with one of said plates for permitting of the attachment of an article to be imprinted thereon, and means movably connecting said plates one with the other.

7. An attachment including a pair of plates, means associated with one of said plates for permitting of the attachment of an article to be imprinted thereon, and shiftable means for connecting said plates one to the other.

8. An attachment including .a pair of plates, means associated with one of said plates for permitting of the attachment of an article to be imprinted thereon, and means slidably' connecting said plates one to the other.

9. An attachment including a pair of plates, means associated with one of said plates for permitting the attachment of an article to be imprinted thereon, and means connecting said plates one to the other in such a manner as to permit of a step-by-step movement of one plate with respect to another of the same.

10. An attachment, including a pair of plates, means associated with one of said plates for permitting of the attachment of an article to be imprinted thereon, one of said plates being formed with slots provided with off-set portions, and pins secured to an ailjacent plate and extending through said 5 ots.

11. An attachment including a pair of plates, means associated with one of said plates for permitting of the attachment of an article to be imprinted thereon, one of said plates being formed with slots provided with off-set portions, and pins secured to an adjacent plate and extending through said slots, and in slid-able engagement therewith.

12. An attachment including a pair of plates preferably connected together, a strip connected to one of said plates, and retaining means connected to said strip.

13. An attachment including a pair of plates preferably connected together, a strip adjustably connected to one of said plates, and retaining means connected to said strip.

14. An attachment including a pair of plates preferablyconnected together, a strip adjustably connected to one of said plates, and retaining means hingedly connected to said strip.

15. An attachment including a pair of plates, means for preferably connecting said plates one to the other, a strip fixedly connected to one of said plates, retaining means hingedly connected to said strip, and a spring for normally extending said retain ing means in aligned position with said strip.

16. An attachment including a pair of plates, means for preferably connecting said plates one to the other, a strip fixedly con nected to one of said plates, retaining means hingedly connected to said strip, and a blocking plate forming apart of-said at taclnnent, and extending beyond said strip.

17. An attachment including a pair of plates, means for preferably connecting said plates one to the other, a strip fixedly connected to one of said plates, retaining means. hingedly connected to said strip, a blocking plate forming a part of said attachment, and extending beyond said strip, said blocking sheet being formed .with an outwardly extending portion.

18. An attachment including a pair of plates, slots provided with off-set portions formed in one of said plates, pins associated with the second of said plates and extend- .ing through said slots, a strip carried by one 'of said plates, a secondary strip hingedly connected to said first-named strip,-clips cooperating with said secondary strips, and a guard plate arranged below said secondary strip and extending beyond the same.

l9. In an addressing machine or the like having a plate provided with type arranged in lines, one above the other, and a platen movable with respect to the same, means for retaining an article to be imprinted, said means shiftable with respect to said plate whereby the imprint is arranged in alignment upon said article.

20. In an addressing machine or the like having a plate provided with type arranged in lines, one above the other, and a platen movable in respect to the same, means for retaining an article to be imprinted, said means shiftable in respect to said plate whereby thi, imprint is selectively printed upon said article in an arrangement different from that of the type upon said plate.

21. In combination with a type plate provided with type arranged in lines one-above the other, ineans for retaining an article to be imprinted, said means capable of movin the article to cause the imprint'to be printed upon said article in an arrangement different from that of the type upon said late.

An attachment, including in com ination with a data transferring device, means for positioning an article to be imprinted, said means including locating members. engaging an edge of the article and adapted to be. shifted substantially transversely to move the article in various positions relatively to said device.

23. An attachment, including in combination with a type plate and a movable platen,

means for engaging the lower edge of an article to be. imprinted to position the article relative to said plate, and means capable of shielding a. portion of the article overlying said plate and adapted to be shifted substantially longitudinally to move with the article to various positions relatively to said plate.

24. An attachment, including in combination witha data transferring device, means for engaging the lower edge of an article to be imprinted to position the article relative to said device, and means capable .of receiving a portion of the article and adapted to be shifted to move with the article to various positions relatively to said device, whereby the imprint obtained is in a difierent arrangement than that upon thedevice.

25. In an addressing machine or the like, having a record transfer device with the characters thereon arranged in lines one above the other, and means to transfer the record from said device onto a card or the like, means for engaging the card to be imprinted, said means shiftable with respect to said device whereby the characters thereof are arranged in alignment upon the card, and means to locate the imprint adjacent one edge with respect to another edge of the car 26. In an addressing machine provided with means to transfer data from a character receiving member on to an article to be imprinted therewith, an article holder provided with a support attachable to said machine, an article engaging member slidingly secured to said support and located adjacent the character receiving member, said article engaging member being adapted by engagement with the article to move therewith, and I a character receiving device onto acard 01-" the like, a card controlling attachment comprising .a support, a card holder .slidably connected to said support having a card to be imprinted mounted thereon, means to engage an edge of said card to locate the oppos site edge thereof in character receiving position, said card being shiftable relatively to said device to selectively obtain portional imprints from the data thereon- 28. An attachment for addressing machines, wherein data is transferable from a pre-formed impression thereof, lines one above the other, to an article, including means for controlling the article to be imprinted, comprising a pair of plates, means slidingly ,gether, means on one of said plates for retaining the article, said connecting-means including a co-operating pin and slot StlllC- ture adapted to allow said article retaining means to be shifted withrespect to the preformed impression, whereby the data is imprinted upon the article in an arrangement different from that of the pro-formed im pression.

29.' An attachment for addressing ma chines, wherein datais transferable from a pre-formed impression thereof to an article, including means for controlling the article to be imprinted, comprising a pair of. plates, means slidingly connecting said plates together, means on one of said platesfor re taining the article, said connecting means including a cooperating pin "and slot strucmeans to be shifted with respect to the preformed impression, whereby the data is imprinted upon the article in an arrangement different from that 'of' the pro-formed impression.

30. An attachment, including a pair of plates, means associated with one of said ture adapted to allow said article retaining secured to an .said slot. 1 7 1 33. An attachment, including a pair of arranged in connecting said plates to-- plates for receiving an article to be im- 7 printed, one of-said plates being formed with a. slot and a pin securedto an adjacent plate extending through said slot.

P 31. An attachment, including a pair of plates, means associated 'with one of said plates for receiving an article to be imprinted, oneof said plates being formed with a slot and a pinsecured to an adjacent plate and extending through, said'slot in slidable engagement therewith/ 32. An attachment, including a pair of plates, means associated with one of said plates for receiving an article to be imprinted, one of said plates being formed with an elongated slot, one end of which isofl'set from the other end thereof, and a pin adjacent plate extending into plates, means associated vwith one of said plates for receiving an-article to be imprinted, one of said plates being formed with an elongated slot, one end of which is offset from'the other end thereof, and a) pin secured to an adjacent plate extending into said slot in slidable engagement therewith. 34. An attachment, including av pair of plates, means for connecting said plates, one a strip fixedly connected to one to the other, of said plates, article retaining means connected to said strip, and a movable blocking plate forming a part of said attachment.

35. An attachment, includingin combination with I a record transferring device, means for retaining an "article to be imprinted said means shiftable with respect to said device,-whereby the arrangement of the imprint is varied from the arrangement of the record upon said device, and interchangeable .means for controlling said 81? ticle retaining meansin its movements, whereby a different arrangement-of the imprint is obtainable.

. 36. In an attachment forthe pur ose described, a base, member, an obli ue y'mov-- able artlcle carr1er,.a perpendmu able blocking member, and means for controlling said carrier and said member comprising camming means including an elongated slot. 1 a

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